# Pollock (surname)

Pollock is a surname. In some cases, it originates as a locative name derived from Upper Pollock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. An early bearer of a form of this surname is Peter de Pollok, in about 1172–1178. In other cases, the surname is derived from the Middle English personal name *Pollok (Old English *Pulloc). An early bearer of a form of this surname is Roger Pollok, in 1332.

## People surnamed Pollock

* A. J. Pollock (born 1987), American baseball player
* Alexander Pollock, Canadian actor
* Alexander Pollock (politician), Scottish parliamentarian
* Algernon J. Pollock (1864–1957), Evangelist and writer from the Plymouth Brethren movement
* Allyson Pollock, Scottish professor of public health policy
* Andrew Pollock (disambiguation)
** Andrew Maclean Pollock (1914–1969), Scottish-born South African cricketer
** Andrew Graeme Pollock (born 1969), South African cricketer, son of Andrew Maclean Pollock
* Bertram Pollock (1863–1943), Anglican bishop
* Carl Arthur Pollock (1903–1978), Canadian businessman
* Channing Pollock (disambiguation)
* Charles Edward Pollock (1823–1897), English judge
* Craig Pollock (born 1956), F1 manager
* Daniel Pollock (1969–1992), Australian actor
* Daniel C. Pollock (1913–2007), United States Marine Corps colonel and Navy Cross recipient
* David Pollock (disambiguation)
** David Pollock (judge) (1780 –1847), British judge in India
** David Pollock (actor) (born 1961), former American child actor
** David Pollock (rugby union) (born 1987), rugby union player for Ulster Rugby
** David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 1946), British peer, academic and Labour member of the House of Lords
** David Pollock (humanist) (1942–2023), British secular humanist
** Dave Pollock (born 1942), former Australian politician
** David C. Pollock (1939–2004), sociologist
* Dee Pollock (1937–2005), American film and television actor
* Sir J. Donald Pollock (1868–1962), Scottish industrialist and Rector of Edinburgh University
* Eddie Pollock (born 1957), Scottish cricketer
* Edward Pollock (1823–1858), American poet
* Edwin A. Pollock (1899–1982), United States Marine Corps general and Navy Cross recipient
* Sir Edward James Pollock (1841–1930), British barrister and Official Referee of Supreme Court of Judicature
* Edwin Taylor Pollock (1870–1943), Captain, USN
* Eileen Pollock (1947–2020), Northern Irish actress
* Eileen "Mike" Pollock, American screenwriter
* Eliza Pollock (1840–1919), American archer
* Emma Pollock, Scottish Musician
* Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861–1936), English Attorney General
* Fergus Pollock, British automobile designer
* Francis Pollock (1876–1957), Canadian science fiction writer
* Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet (1783–1870), British lawyer and politician
* Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (1845–1937), British jurist
* F. H. Pollock Frederick Hart Pollock (1842–1908), actor and theatrical manager in Australia
* Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970), German philosopher and economist
* Gale Pollock, acting U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General
* George Pollock (1786–1872), British field marshal
* George Pollock (Australian politician) (1890–1939), speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
* George Pollock (director) (1907–1979), English film director
* George David Pollock (1817–1897), British surgeon
* George Frederick Pollock (1821–1915), British lawyer
* Graeme Pollock (born 1944), South African cricketer
* Griselda Pollock (born 1949), British art historian
* Harry Frederick Pollock (1857–1901), British lawyer and politician
* Henry Pollock (1864–1953), Hong Kong politician and barrister
* Henry W. Pollock (1878–1954), New York state senator
* Howard Wallace Pollock (1920–2011), American politician
* Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888–1971), British editor, soldier and husband of Enid Blyton and Ida Pollock
* Hugh MacDowell Pollock (1852–1937), Northern Ireland Minister of Finance
* Ida Pollock, romance novelist and centenarian; wife of Hugh Pollock
* Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), American artist
* Jame Pollock (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey player
* James Pollock (American politician) (1810–1890), Governor of Pennsylvania
* James Dalgleish Pollock VC (1890–1958), British soldier
* Jamie Pollock (born 1974), English footballer
* Jamie Pollock (woman soccer player), American soccer player
* Jean-Yves Pollock, French linguist and professor
* Jim Pollock (1930–2021), Canadian politician
* John L. Pollock (1940–2009), American philosopher
* Kevin Pollock (born 1970), Canadian referee in the National Hockey League
* Linda Pollock, historian of early modern England and professor at Tulane University
* Luke Pollock (Born 1998) Irish music producer
* Lloyd Pollock (1909–1993), president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
* Mark Pollock, blind Northern Irish adventurer.
* Mary Pollock, pseudonym used by Enid Blyton
* Michael Pollock (Royal Navy officer), British Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
* Michael Pollock (tenor) (1921—2003), American operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher
* Mike Pollock (voice actor) (born 1965), American actor
* Mike Pollock (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s
* Oliver Pollock (1737–1823), American Revolutionary and financier
* Paul Pollock (born 1986), Irish Marathon runner and medical doctor
* Peter Pollock (born 1941), South African cricketer
* Robert Pollock (disambiguation)
** Robert Pollock (actor) (born 1960), New Zealand actor
** Robert L. Pollock, business writer for The Wall Street Journal
** Robert M. Pollock (1856–1920), Republican member of the North Dakota House of Representatives
** Robert Mason Pollock (1926–2012), American television writer
** Robert A. Pollock (1930–2003), footballer turned writer-novelist who wrote the novel Loophole
** Robert Pollok (poet) (1798–1827), Scottish poet best known for The Course of Time
** Robert Pollok (British Army officer) (1884–1979), Irish-born British Army officer
* Sam Pollock (1925–2007), Canadian hockey manager
* Sharon Pollock (1936–2021), Canadian playwright
* Shaun Pollock (born 1973), South African cricketer
* Sheldon Pollock, American Sanskritist
* Wellesca Pollock (1871–1940), American educator
* William H. K. Pollock (1859–1896), chess player
* Sir William Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet (1815–1888), British lawyer
* William P. Pollock (1870–1922), Senator from South Carolina

## Fictional people named Pollock

* Bertie Pollock

## Other

* Clan Pollock, Scottish clan
* Pollock baronets